Orphan HP Alphaservers looking for a new home

[Jim Manley]

Hi Andrew,

If it’s any consolation, the users of these components will be high school
students in an extremely rural area at the lowest level of poverty in the
U.S.  The students are eager to learn  computing and networking principles,
and these will provide opportunities for that in spades.

The performance level of these, compared with current technology, is
unimportant, as getting the right answers is more significant than how fast
they were computed.  These components were used for data services, so that
fulfills the trifecta of computing, data structures, and networking (and at
fiber channel speeds, AIUI).

We’ll make some videos eventually as they puzzle their way through getting
software licenses acquired and installed, things are configured to work
together, and we get proof-of-life command line prompts.

I hope you are able to acquire your own Alphaservers and whatever other
techno-toys you covet in the near future.

All the Best,
Jim


On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 2:58 PM Andrew Luke Nesbit <
ullbeking at andrewnesbit.org> wrote:

> Dear Richard,
>
> Thank you for replying in such a considered way.  Please see below for
> comments.
>
> On 25/01/2019 00:07, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
>
> > All of you have at one time expressed interest in all or part of this
> > rack full of Alphaservers and one of you even talked about driving a
> truck
> > up from Montana and taking it all home.
>
> All I can think of at this moment is how beautiful it must be to go on a
> road trip in Montana.
>
> > Are any of you still interested?
>
> I remain tremendously interested in learning about AlphaServers and
> acuiring another one or two.
>
> But I live in London, UK.  I was considering paying for the cheapest
> slow seamail.  Other people have less crazy ideas.  I doubt that my idea
> is appealing to Richard either.
>
> > First priority goes to anybody willing to come up here and pick up all
> > or part of the collection.  I will consider shipping if that is what it
> > comes down to but the packing and transprotation will be expensive for
> > the DS15 and extremely expensive for the other units.
>
> From reading the rest of this thread, it looks as though you've already
> found your collector/s and arranged a date.
>
> I'm very happy that these are going to a good home.  It's fabulous that
> the flame is carrying on.
>
> For future reference, if anybody sees AlphaServers or similarly
> interesting hardware closer to home (UK or EU), then please do let me
> know!  Thank you!!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Andrew



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